Capital Projects Manager

Job Description:

Capital Projects Manager

Description

Capital Projects Manager
at The City of Fort Worth
FWLab

Pay Range: $47.33/hr. - $53.51/hr. | $98,453 - $111,295 annual compensation

Job Posting Closing on: Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Workdays & Hours: Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm; Some evening/weekend work required.

Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities. Find Out More!

The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of over 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.

A Capital Projects Manager job is available with the City of Fort Worth FWLab Department. The FWLab advances the City's vision to be "the most livable and best managed city in the country" by building organizational capacity to explore, analyze and learn from data that is deliverable via existing and new municipal system and components.

The Capital Projects Manager will assist in overseeing and coordinating management of all capital projects within the City of Fort Worth, ensuring alignment with long-term city goals and sustainability objectives. This pivotal role is essential for safeguarding taxpayer resources, ensuring projects are delivered on-time, within scope, and on budget. The Capital Projects Manager will assist in collaborating with departments, proactively track and manage capital project performance, and play a key centralized role in financial management, including overseeing budgets, cash flow, bond programming, and lifecycle costs. You will work closely with various city departments to ensure the City's capital projects contribute to a resilient, efficient, and cost-effective infrastructure system. The incumbent will report to FWLab's Senior Capital Projects Officer.

This position is budgeted through September 30, 2026, and is subject to continued funding availability

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in project/program management, engineering, landscape architecture, planning, public administration, business administration, or a related field
• Four years of increasingly responsible administrative experience; including two years of administrative and supervisory responsibility

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of progressively responsible experience in capital project management or infrastructure development, with at least 2 years in a leadership or supervisory role.
• Possession of any of the following registration and/or certifications is preferred
  • Registration as a Professional Engineer in the State of Texas
  • Registration as a Registered Architect in the State of Texas
  • Certification as a Certified Construction Manager
  • Certification as a Project Management Professional
• Knowledge of project management principles, budget control, and lifecycle cost analysis
• Knowledge of capital financial oversight principles and understanding of multiple funding sources for large capital projects
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills, and strong reporting skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

The Capital Projects Manager job responsibilities include:

• Capital Project Oversight: Assist in maintaining a comprehensive knowledge of all ongoing and upcoming capital projects, ensuring alignment with the City's infrastructure and strategic plans (e.g., parks, transportation, facilities, water, and sewer)
• Budget & Financial Management: Assist in monitoring project expenditures, tracking funding sources, and evaluating financial performance. Collaborate with departments to maximize funds available for capital improvements
• Capital & Budget Transparent Reporting: Assist in the development and implementation of the City's Bond Program website informed by data aggregated from departments. Collaborate with FWLab Data Analytics team to develop easy-to-understand reporting dashboards
• Lifecycle Analysis & Asset Management: Assist in the assessment of the life-cycle costs of city assets, ensuring the capital projects integrate long-term maintenance and replacement strategies to reduce overall infrastructure costs
• Stakeholder Engagement & Coordination: Assist in the development of technical reports and presentations on capital project alignment for stakeholder understanding
• Project Closeout & Evaluation: Assist in monitoring the project closeout process to ensure that financial and operational performance is reviewed and that surplus funds are reallocated. Collaborate with departments to evaluate the project life-cycle and that lessons learned are incorporated into future projects
• Infrastructure Strategy & Planning: Assist in identifying infrastructure planning gaps and developing funding strategies for unmet infrastructure needs

Working Conditions and Physical Demand

Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, walking, and repetitive motions.

Sedentary Work-Depending on assignment, position in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting more of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

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Conditions of Employment

The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.

The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.

Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.

Closing Date/Time: Wednesday ,

Salary:

$47.33/hr. - $53.51/hr. | $98,453 - $111,295 annual compensation